Sholem Aleichem: Monologues of Mastery

Generation of Coherent Monologues

In this paper a method for generating coherent texts is described. In this method only local conditions associated with sentences determine the appropriateness of a sentence at a certain point in the text. The method does not require any form of planning and it concentrates on maximizing the amount of variation of the texts generated. 1 Introduction The topic of this paper is the generation of ...

Monologues, Dialogues, and Interactive Conversations:

The purpose of this qualitative study was to examine the on-line discourse accompanying a year-long professional development experience. Participants in this study were 19 graduate students, 5 teacher-leaders, and 1 university faculty member involved in a Reading Institute taught at an urban university in the Southeast. Primary data sources for the study consisted of over 1300 bulletin board po...

SMALLWorlds - Multilingual Content-Controlled Monologues

We present the speech corpus SMALLWorlds (Spoken Multilingual Accounts of Logically Limited Worlds), newly established and still growing. SMALLWorlds contains monologic descriptions of scenes or worlds which are simple enough to be formally describable. The descriptions are instances of content-controlled monologue: semantically “pre-specified” but still bearing most hallmarks of spontaneous sp...

I.B. Singer's Monologues of Demons

Evidential mastery

Master speakers In Zinacantán, a Tzotzil [Mayan] speaking community in highland Chiapas, Mexico, there are various kinds of specialists in talk, many of whose roles are lexically labeled. Consider, for example the j`ilol, ‘curer, lit., seer’ who cures (and occasionally gives) illness by means of ritual offerings and prayer; the jmeltzanej-k’op, ‘dispute settler, lit., maker of words’ who helps ...